Re: Those Apple ][ clones...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
>
>>Didn't the later legal Franklins have to boot some kind of
>>special ProDOS to use to circumvent the copyring issue?
>>On a Laser, this isn't necessary.  Software actually thinks
>>it is running on an Apple IIe/IIc.
>
>Interesting.  I thought that ProDOS looked at characters in
>the ROM which contain the Apple copyright message.

I don't doubt it.  But the programmers of the Laser ROM
probably encountered that and worked around it.  I
figure when a company actually puts the resources into
such reverse-engineering, they could work at it until the
Laser works around all the obstacles.

My programming experience is limited to the scripting
languages like HyperTalk and of course Applesoft but
I surmise that since they can't copy Apple's copyright
message, they probably trap ProDOS when it tries to
stop upon not finding that message and then forces
it to continue.